
The House Eats Last
Her mother never apologised. Now the empty chair speaks in her voice.
Maren Saye returns to Orison House to empty it. She does not intend to grieve a mother who spent their last conversation listing everything she had done wrong. Then she lays a second place at dinner out of habit, and somebody answers from the empty chair.
The voice is patient. Loving. Everything her mother could never quite be. Each evening it asks Maren to remember one more meal, one more person, one more reason she should stay. Outside the dining room, ordinary memories begin to blur.
When a visitor hears a different loved one speaking from the same chair, Maren understands that she has not brought her mother back. Something has learned what she is hungry for. Now it wants her to invite the living to dinner.



The Harbour Between Us
The Last-Minute Club
The Night Stint Romances
The Wild Orbit Trilogy
The Bexley Backlot Mysteries
The Afterglow Familiar Club